The year was 1445, Ivan III “The Great” was in power in Russia. Alexiana Khvostovich was her name and she had been orphaned since age ten. Unfortunately her parents were killed by Khan’s Golden Horde. She somehow ended up in the care of a brothel house, which was no place really for a young girl but she was not any ordinary young girl of the time. She was very high spirited and naturally intelligent. So that is where she ended up inevitably at her young age and it taught her many things…one being survival. She did what she had to do back then to survive and grew up very fast as a result. It was a tumultuous time in Russia. The government was in chaos. To her benefit, she was very beautiful, tall for a young woman of that time. She had eyes that were of the lightest blue and striking against the darkness of her hair. Such attributes gained her more attention and favor in the brothel houses which of course in those times catered to only a certain class. She was traded from one to another of the finer courtesan houses when she came of age in a bitter feud between two rival houses as a plea bargain to settle the feud between the two; it was a deep disappointment to her to have to leave a place she had known.


Being that she grew up and was cared for by the courtesans that had taught her so much, it was expected she would assume the role also which of course she eventually did and learned to do very well entertaining rich and powerful men. She had just hoped it would have been in the place she had grown up in, but her new house they expected her to earn favor. All the courtesans were highly educated in music, could read, could hold their own with most anyone that came in. Some even entertained by playing the violin. It was on such a fateful night when she was about age twenty three that she met a stranger that would change her life forever….




She was “entertaining” a gentleman who had came in rather late and picked her out from all the others present. He was not like any man she or the others had seen but they knew that there were others coming from far away into their midst and maybe this was the case with the stranger. He was oddly dressed and somewhat pale. He moved very deliberately and spoke in a language at times that seemed somehow odd to her. Alexiana was however drawn to him. Later that night he nearly tore her throat out afterwards and left her for dead. She woke up the next day in delirium, having fits of fever and chills. The women in the courtesan house were frantic that she would not live with the amount of the blood loss. Alexiana had horrible dreams of the man and that night several times she would wake screaming thinking he was in the room. She grew pale and would not eat. The dreams continued and Alexiana heard the mysterious man’s voice telling her ~If you are strong enough you will survive and be immortal but if you are weak girl…you will die and be consumed by the Earth you walk on~ She would wake up and look around and she would be alone. She remembered what he told her after he bit her…he had said.. “She would live forever if she were clever enough”. She suspected he was one of the Golden Horde Mongols turned devil but she did not know what that man was until much later when passing through Germany and hearing the word “Nosferatu” whispered in the taverns after she herself had to flee her native Russia on her way to Paris, France



Alexiana would stay in France through the reign of King Francis I and left around 1540. She learned Latin there before he declared French the official language. It had been the height of the French Renaissance period. She would begin to learn to appreciate art there, which would drive an obsession for beautiful things for many years to come; an appreciation seen through her new vampiric vision. She was amazed the first time her eyes turned and refocused and she saw things in such vivid detail, new beauty and colors. It was as if a completely new world existed she had never seen before.

Alexiana resurfaced in Venice, Italy at around 1555. She loved the art of the time mixed with the decadence of the city. She decided that she could take advantage of the rich merchants and nobles that came to take pleasure in the many talented courtesan houses that were in the city. She set up and became Mistress of one of the most respected of the cities courtesan houses, House Madroma-non-vuole . Her courtesans were some of the most cultured, refined and intelligent women of the day. Some she even turned into vampires herself. She fed on the rich patrons and noblemen that came to visit. Man or woman, she did not care..it was the blood that drove her own bloodlust to such a decadent frenzy. It gave her an opportunity to hide in style and opulence. Once again, she would not stay though; the religious movement would try to drive out the courtesans when Pope Pius V took over in 1566. He attempted to rid Rome of all of its " so called prostitutes" and passed a decree that stated that within six days, all "prostitutes" must leave Rome and in twelve days, they must be outside the Papal States. This created quite an uproar in the city because most citizens disagreed. One of her girls was left in charge and soon Alexiana disappeared again. She left in the middle of the night sometime in 1600..It was an irritation she would not tolerate, besides she tired of the old ways and had learned much.



It was in Spain where she next surfaced. She enjoyed the culture and art of Diego Velázquez and El Greco. She loved the bullfights in the Plaza Mayor. She even met King Phillip III at one of the Grand Balls. She loved to dance and excelled at a waltz. She learned many of the Latin dances while in Spain. She had learned that if she fed enough that she could fool any human and safely blend into the crowd with them if it pleased her. Spain was preoccupied with its failed colonial politics at the time. She was fascinated with the tales of a "new place across the ocean". Alexiana would seduce the sailors and pirates coming back from this place called the New World just so she could hear stories of it. She decided to stow away on one of these ships one night to make the long journey to see this place and escape the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714). The ship barely made it to the shores of what was known as the Carolinas, she had killed nearly all the crew aboard to survive the long crossing. It nearly killed her. The men thought the ship was surely cursed as well. Alexiana was so glad to finally see this "New World" as were the few men that had made it on the "cursed" voyage. They burned the “haunted doomed ship” on the third day at dusk and sat drinking rum on the beach watching it burn, it was quite a sight. Alexiana watched from a nearby tree and barely escaped being burnt alive in the belly of the ship that night for she was still hiding in a huge cargo trunk during the day. Luckily for her the ship didn’t catch good and it was close to nighttime when they set it ablaze.



Alexiana really doesn’t talk much of her time when she got to the New World. Some have heard her talk of being in the company of Blackbeard the pirate in “Fishtown” in what is now Beaufort, North Carolina, that would be around the year 1722. She learned some rough things from those days and lost some of her finer edges. After that it is rumored that she went into a deep torpor for a long time, she confirmed this by saying “Yes, I took to the sleep around 1758.. I think.” Alexiana had talked of the land in the New world being in turmoil with the French and the native people being in a great land war with the British.